Nos. 2, 3 and 4 are also fragments of an incised ware found in some
irregular holes on the north side of the hill of Paheri, and not
before mentioned. With them were a few very late blue glaze beads, and
two pots that were probably Roman, but these three fragments are
evidently much older.
No. 5 is the outline of a _majūr_, the large pot used as a coffin
in the Old Kingdom.
No. 6 is a fragment of Neolithic pottery from one of the small graves
inside the town (_cf._ Naqada, XXXV, 74).
Nos. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are from intrusive burials in the XIIth
dynasty cemetery. No. 13, perhaps Roman, has a certain importance in
the question of the date of the great wall (_cf._ § 27).
No. 14 is one of the pots from the pigeon-house in the south of the
town (PL. XXIV).
After the scarabs come six cylinders.
No. 28, in black stone, perhaps Men-kau-ra, but from the XIIth dynasty
cemetery.
No. 29, in green steatite, from a stairway tomb.
No. 30, probably copper, not bronze, found with a _majūr_ burial.
Nos. 31 and 33, black stone and ivory respectively, from another Old
Kingdom well.
No. 32, a well-known type of black stone cylinder, found in a mastaba
with a scrap of diorite, on which the name of Sneferu was scratched.
38. PL. XXI gives the objects from the different foundation deposits.
The first sixteen are from the small temple of Thothmes III. Nos. 1, 2
and 4 are of blue glaze. The spiral mark on the bead is noteworthy; it
is common in the XIIth dynasty, and is also known in the XVIIIth at
Deir-el-Bahri. Nos. 3 and 8 are sandstone corn-rubbers, with
inscriptions in blue paint; 5 and 9 are alabaster models of the head
of a fire-drill (?) and of a double shell. The inscriptions are all
the same: "The good god, Menkheper-ra, beloved of Nekheb." No. 10 is a
little wooden girdle-tie; 6, 7 and 11 are bronze tools. The five pots
below are on a smaller scale.
Nos. 17 to 24 are the pots from the deposits of Amenhotep II, found
under the great temple inside El Kab.
From No. 25 onwards all are from the later deposits (PL. I, 8 N), also
under the great temple. Of green glaze are Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,
38, 39 and 48; of bronze are Nos. 31, 33, 34, 35, 32; of clay, 41 and
47. No. 42 is of bone, No. 37 of calcite, Nos. 36 and 39 of red
glass. Nos. 43 and 44 (scale 1/6) are the typical shapes of pottery.
Nos. 45 and 46 show the coarse sandstone mortars found in these
deposits.
39. PL. XXII is a plan of the XIIth dynasty tombs found outside the
east wall of the temple.
PL. XXIII gives the large group of mastabas found under the heap of
sand north of the town wall.
PL. XXIV shows a group of buildings in the southern half of the town
enclosure, mastabas, small open graves of the Libyan period, and
arched graves of the XIIth dynasty.
PL. XXV gives drawings of a stone gateway in the great wall, under
which a vain search was made for foundation deposits.
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